How is the data you collect going to be made available to the public? Will you make it available via a GeoRSS feed or as a WFS?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All, > > I am looking for participants on this trial that is open internationally, and > that I am organising in the context of my PhD research. The description > follows. > Thanks > > > Mauro > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Share your experience of the city > > What is it? > > This is an academic research project of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de > Lausanne. > > STAMPS is a little application that allows you to leave notes on a map using > your mobile phone. You can see a map of the place where you are, visualised on > the screen of your mobile. There, you can write a kind of SMS and attach it to > the map so that other friends can see your message appearing on their map. You > can write for instance: “this is my favorite pizzeria!”, to offer advice to > your > buddies. All the messages left in the system say something about the city > where > you live: what are the sport locations, the place to eat, the meeting spots. > After a while, we want to use all these information to help the users to > ‘navigate’ the city. You can ask the system, for instance: “where is a > pizzeria > nearby?”, and the system will search for other people’s messages which refer > to > the term pizzeria to give you an advice. > > What are we looking for? > > We are looking for a group of ‘activists’, friends, who like to walk the city > and annotate the spots they like the most, the places they hate. If you want > to > participate in this trial you need to be passionate about your city, informed > on > the activities running in the surroundings and ready to share this information > with your friends. We expect from you to participate intensively for the next > few months leaving notes of your activities in the urban area. > > What is it for you? > > If you will be selected for the first trial all the connection costs that you > will have to use the system will be reimbursed. If your telephone is not > compatible with our software, we will give you a new one for the period of the > trial. The most creative and active participants will be awarded with a > monetary > prize. > > How can I apply for participating? > > Please send an email to shoutspace[at]gmail.com with your coordinates, your > telephone model and your operator. If you apply with your friends you will > have > more chances to be selected. Please add the coordinates of your friends to the > message. > > More information > > http://www.i-cherubini.it/mauro/blog/2006/03/16/stamps-field-trial/ > > http://craftsrv1.epfl.ch/research/stamps/ > > > > > > > > _______________ > Mauro Cherubini > Research Associate > Centre de Recherche et d'Appui pour la Formation et ses Technologies (CRAFT) / > Center for Research and Support of Training and its Technologies > > Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) / Swiss Federal Institute of > Technology Lausanne > Address: CE 1.631 (Bâtiment CE), Station 1, EPFL - Ecublens, CH - 1015 > Lausanne, > Switzerland > Téléphone: +41 (0)21/693.27.05 -- Fax: +41 (0)21/693.60.70 -- Mobile: +41 > (0)78/ 913.50.11 > web: http://craft.epfl.ch -- blog: http://www.i-cherubini.it/mauro/blog/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > -- Cameron Shorter http://cameron.shorter.net _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
